Events

The Center’s outreach projects bridge the gap between scholarly research and broad audiences interested in the American and global South. Events explore topics ranging from hip hop to the southern environment and are produced for audiences large and small.  Annual events include a symposium on the music, the Oxford Conference for the Book, and Brown Bag Lectures during the school year.  The Center frequently presents lectures by both UM professors and those from other institutions. Many events occur in partnership with other UM departments and institutes, such as those of history, African American Studies, English, sociology and anthropology, the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics, and the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies. A partnership begun in 2010 with the Department of History and the African American Studies Program has led to the Gilder-Jordan Lecture Series in Southern Cultural History.